"NACA wants a voice transcript of the communication?"

Academician She, who was still in Qiongzhou, was a little surprised, but quickly figured out something.

It was robot 14, which was the fastest to find the wreckage of Artemis II, and the ground crew also spoke to Christina through it, which may have made the other party suspicious.

Maybe Koch will tell NACA that there is a stranger's voice on the moon?

Of course, Academician She is not afraid of the other party's suspicion, and the space agency is not obliged to cooperate with NACA's accident investigation, so it can completely refuse.

But in doing so, it seems that there may be ghosts, so you still have to cooperate a little.

"Xiao Zhang, you go to Fang Lin to re-record the audio, replace the audio and send it to NACA.

And then they don't have to reply to anything, we just have to ignore it, you know? ”

Xiao Zhang was the ground staff who responded that day, he thought for a while and asked:

"Mr. She, I think there should be a recording of Koch and Victor's spacesuits, will this be ......?"

"It's their problem that the radio is biased, we just need to give an attitude, and how to understand it is their own business."

"Yes!"

……

Presidential palace.

John looked at the open office door with a blank face, and waited a few minutes before seeing Jack Sullivan walk in.

Although Sullivan and his political views were completely opposite before, John has become more and more dependent on him for decision-making because of the latter, or rather the team he represents.

At this time, he saw Sullivan as if he was an old man who couldn't operate a smart TV, and when he saw the TV installer, he said eagerly before the other party could stand firm:

"Is there a way to get those damn media to stop reporting on the Chinese and Abel's moon landing, look at the cover of this latest "Time", it's actually an Abel astronaut!

How many dollars did they charge to be so cheap, even the Ami hero Victor didn't get this treatment! ”

Sullivan still looked expected, and responded calmly:

"Sir, the media is free, and we can't let them ban such a well-known thing, on the contrary, you should be more concerned about the current issues, such as salary increases."

Hearing the sensitive word "salary", John, who came from a big businessman's family, immediately turned his mind and flipped through the documents that John had brought.

After the official announcement of the "Industry Bill" and the "Consumption Bill" at the end of last month, the restrictions on foreign imports of industrial products have increased sharply, and the parliament is still considering a new bill to target capital outflows, which immediately boosted the confidence of the local manufacturing industry.

Giants such as General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler immediately announced the addition of several assembly plants, and then the auto sector stocks also ushered in an increase that had not been seen for many years, both businessmen and the public were applauding.

But then came protests demanding that car companies continue to increase base salaries, and while average wages have been rising year after year compared to history, inflation must be taken into account, and the cost of living at Aramco is not low.

For example, the food delivery drivers that can be seen everywhere charge at least two dollars or more for a single order, and it costs forty dollars to order a KFC family bucket, so although a monthly salary of three thousand dollars at the exchange rate is enough to live quite comfortably in China, it is really not much different from the domestic salary of three or four thousand in terms of prices.

The cost of any work that has to do with labor is unusually high, and meat and a few industrial products are slightly more cost-effective.

In the past, Aramco would do its best to maintain the exchange rate of the US dollar in order to buy large quantities of foreign goods at low prices. Now, on the contrary, proper water release is more conducive to the development of the manufacturing industry.

This level of bloodletting is also good for the flow of money to the bottom, which is an act that makes society function more normally in any country.

So John didn't hesitate to make a decision:

"Tell the Auto Union to raise the base salary by at least 10 ...... 15 points, we gave them so much subsidy that it doesn't affect anything to spit it out.

It's not just them, it's anything else...... Especially aerospace-related enterprises, this should be the case. ”

Sullivan: "No problem, one more thing:

The Fed is ready to issue $450 billion in Treasuries over the next three months and is ready to raise interest rates to around 4.5% within six months. ”

John: "What is our national debt now?" ”

Sullivan: "The data in March was exactly 20 trillion, and Huaguo held 1.18 trillion, but they started to reduce their holdings in May, and now they have dropped 11 billion.

According to last year's total GDP of 19.6 trillion yuan, the number of Aramco's national bonds is now 102% of GDP, exceeding the warning line of 90%, which is a high risk.

But the fiscal deficit is a bit ugly, because Artemis plans to have a federal deficit of 940 billion yuan in 2016, or about 4.8% of GDP, and it is foreseeable that it will continue to rise in the next decade, and we must curb it. ”

John nodded approvingly, the national debt can still rely on external risk transfer, and it is nothing to put a little water, but the fiscal deficit is a true reflection of the stability of the federal government. A little deficit is more of a boost to the economy, but it's not a good thing to have it done.

"Then we will start raising taxes in the second half of the year, and the taxes on the rich have reached the point where they have to be raised."

……

On August 9, Hatoji Nakayama officially took over and set a date for Kishimototsu's funeral.

While cleaning up the mess, he finally met with representatives of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and JAXA: Kiyoji Izumisawa and Shinichiro Sakai.

During this period of time, the mind of the entire island country's aerospace community was very unstable, and because India's non-cooperation with the "Asian Star" abortion was a foregone conclusion, the newly appointed Nakayama Hatoji would either continue to support JAXA's independent research and development, or he would choose to give up.

Although he encouraged the independent development of aerospace when he was a member of parliament before, who can say anything about politics.

has dragged on until now, and Nakayama finally decided to give an answer.

He first carefully read the JAXA research results summarized by Shinichiro Sakai, and couldn't help but let out a sigh of admiration.

Although the "H-X" rocket prepared for the Asian Star has not yet entered the prototype manufacturing stage, the preliminary pre-research has been relatively complete with the blessing of funds, especially the high-stretch strength rocket body, which is a necessary technology for large-scale rockets.

"Sakai-kun, you've done a very good job, it's been hard.

I would like to start with a question, can JAXA send people into space with the power of JAXA? ”

"This ......"

Shinichiro Sakai hesitated, but told the truth:

"If we can approve five billion dollars, then we can try it out in five years, and we can build a working spacecraft."

Billion? Nakayama Hatoji automatically multiplied this number by two, and then a difficult look appeared on his face:

"Gentlemen, with our ability, I'm afraid it's difficult to undertake this project alone, besides, the suppression of rice animals is well known, although I really want to support it, but I am helpless to be constrained everywhere, and it is very difficult to get my wish."

"So you're going to abandon the manned flight?"

"Of course not, I've always thought that JAXA should vigorously develop the astronaut exploration program, whether it is space or the moon, it will be our goal."

Shinichiro Sakai had just relaxed, but he heard Hatoji Nakayama say:

"John is about to invite me to Washington, D.C., to accept us into the Artemis and Ares programs, and to pledge to send our aviators to the moon within two years.

On the phone, he promised that JAXA would also participate in the construction of the moon and share a lot of technology. ”

Shinichiro Sakai and Izumi Kiyosawa were shocked when they heard this, revealing expressions of disbelief.

This came from the mouth of the Zhongshan Councilor? Didn't he explicitly oppose Ami before?

(End of chapter)